Title Mobile Social Closeness and Communication Patterns
Publication Type Conference Paper
Year of Publication 2010
Authors Phithakkitnukoon, S, Dantu, R
Conference Name Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Conference on Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
Publisher IEEE Press
Conference Location Piscataway, NJ, USA
ISBN Number 978-1-4244-5175-3
Abstract

<p>As mobile networks expand rapidly to facilitate the rising number of mobile phone population, more mobile social services are being developed and offered. To create an efficient social functionality, characteristics of mobile social network must be studied. Social closeness is one of the basic fundamentals of any kind of social networking. In this paper, closeness in mobile social network is the subject of the study, from which social grouping scheme is proposed and validated against the feedbacks of human subjects. Based on the proposed grouping scheme, a study of the impact of the mobile social closeness to the similarity in calling patterns and reciprocity is presented.</p>
URL http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1834217.1834285

Publication Status:

  • Published

UNT Department:

  • Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)

UNT Center:

  • Center for Information and Cyber Security (CICS)

UNT Lab:

  • Network Security Laboratory (NSL)
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